Subject: Newspaper publishing (Keywords)

When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black ink, fag ash, and hot metal. When Les finally leaves Murdoch's employment in 2011, the business of news has been turned upside down, in a tumble of social and technological ...

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), was the greatest press magnate in history and a genius who invented modern popular journalism. By the time of his tragically early death at 57 in August 1922, Northcliffe had founded the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and had also owned The T...

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), was the greatest press magnate in history and a genius who invented modern popular journalism. By the time of his tragically early death at 57 in August 1922, Northcliffe had founded the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and had also owned The T...

Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential reading, admired and envied for the quality of its writers and for its trenchant but fair-minded...

This title explores the rise and rise of the 'Daily Mail', Britain's most profitable newspaper, from its founding by the Harmsworth brothers in 1896, to turning 'compact' in 1971 and becoming the world's biggest newspaper website in 2011. Charting the controversy that has always dogged the public...